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CONTENTS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN HISTORY.
CHAP. I.
Opening of Parliament.-The King's Speech.-Address.- Irish Yeomanry.
-Foreign Trade Committee.-Committee of Supply.-Austrian Loan.—
Ordnance Department.-France and Spain.-Beer Licensing.-Conquer-
ed Colonies.-State Prosecutions in Ireland.-Orange Lodges.-Cash
Payments-Corn Laws.-Weights and Measures, &c. &c.-Petitions
against Marriage Act.-Debtors Act.-Agricultural Distress. — Taxes.—
Jesuits.-Loss by Cash Payments, Sc. c.
CHAP. II.
page 3
Supplies.-Penitentiary at Milbank.-Duties on East India Sugars.-Sink-
ing Fund.-Marriage Act Amendment.-Irish Assessed Taxes.-Church
Establishment of Ireland.-Official Reports.-Orange Societies in Ire-
land.-Commutation of Irish Tithes.-Disposal of his Majesty's Pro-
perty-Warehousing Act.-Agricultural Distress.-The King's Library.
-Game Laws.-Merchant Vessel Apprentice Bill.-Mutiny Bill.-Divi-
sion of Counties.-Ordnance Estimates.-Slave Trade.-Repeal of Assess-
ed Taxes.-France_and_ Spain.—Monument to Lords St. Vincent and
Duncan.
Cape Breton. Beer Trade. Sundry Petitions, &c.
&c..
CHAP. III.
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103
The Catholic Question.-Irish First Fruits.-Crown Prisoners.-Registry
of Vessels Bill.-Military and Naval Pension Bill.-Irish Estimates.
-Militia Reduction Bill.-Foreign Affairs.-Attorney-General of Ire-
land.-The Foreign Enlistment Bill.-Catholic Claims.-Miscellaneous
Estimates.-Game Laws.-State of the Navy-Parliamentary Reform.
-Dublin Grand Jury.-Master and Apprentices Bill.-Bill to repeal
Whipping.-Beer Bill.-Dismission of Mr. White.-Sundry Petitions,
&c. &c.
CHAP. IV.
140
The Warehousing Bill.-Sheriff of Dublin.-Occasional Freeholders Bill.
-Game Laws.-Irish Militia Reduction Bill--Spitalfields Trade.-
Scotch Linen Acts.-Foreign Negotiations.—Continuance of the Irish
Insurrection Bill.-Marriage Act.-Customs Duties Act.-West Indian
Slavery.-Registry of Beer Licences Bill.-Criminal Laws.-Repeal of a
Standing Order.-Duties on East and West India Sugars.-East India
Company Mutiny and Desertion Bill.-Commutation of Tithes Bill.—
Reciprocity of Duties Bill.-Irish Joint Tenantcy Bill.—Sundry Private
Bills, Petitions, c.
CHAP. V.
184
Scotch Entails.-Scotch Representation.-Marriage Act Amendment.—
Irish Joint Tenancy.-Mr. M. Borthwick.-Adjustment of Contracts.—
Scotch Transference of Securities Bill.-Law of Settlement.-Baron
O'Grady-Court of Chancery.-Sale of Game-London Bridge Ad-
vance Bill.-Reciprocity Duties Bill.-Irish Tithe Commutation Bill.—
Scotch and Irish Distillery Bill.-Spitalfields' Silk Act.-Leeward Is-
land 44 per Cent.-Expense of Coronation.-Civil List.-Cash Pay-
ments. Dissenters Marriage Bill. ·Brimstone Duties Drawback.
English Juries.-Assessed Taxes Composition.-Prison Laws Consolida-
tion.-Beer Bill.-Usury Laws.-Burning of Widows in India.-State of
Ireland.-Radical Reform.-Navy Promotion.-Scotch Juries.-Scotch
Commissioners.-Supply-Irish Insurrection Act.-Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.-Capital Punishment.-House of Lords Appellate Jurisdiction.-
Administration of Justice in Ireland.—Merchants Bill.—Criminal Laws.—
Sundry Petitions, &c. &c.
CHAP. VI.
243
Appellate Jurisdiction.-Supply-Prosecution for Infidel Publications.-
The Budget.-Baron O'Grady.-East India Trade Bill.-Slave Trade
Consolidation Bill.-Scotch Entails.-Irish Insurrection Act.-Marriage
Act Amendment.-New South Wales.-Land Tax.-English Catholics.
-Jurors Qualification.-Court of Chancery.-Scottish Law Commission.
Illegal Oaths (Ireland) Bill.—Slaves at Honduras.--Churches in Ireland.
-Silk Manufactures.-Highlands Church Bill.—Sundry Petitions, &c.—
Prorogation of Parliament
CHAP. VII.
382
State of the Country external and internal.—Agriculture, Manufactures,
Commerce, &c.-State of Ireland.
CHAP. VIII.
436
State of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, the East, South Ame-
rica, &c.
439
PUBLIC PAPERS.
The three Official Notes sent by Russia, Austria, and Prussia to their respec-
tive Ministers at Madrid, preparatory to the French Invasion
446
....
Reply to the Note of the French Minister
455
Ditto to those of Russia, Austria, and Prussia
457
Speech of the King of France, January 28th
458
Petition presented to Parliament from the City for Reform..
459
Petition against religious Prosecutions
465
American Annual Treasury Report
468
Circular of the Holy Alliance
476
Report of the Committee of Agricultural Distress in Scotland..
480
Despatch upon the State of Ireland from the Lord Lieutenant to Mr.
Secretary Peel
482
Lord Holland's Protest upon the Spanish Question
486
Petition of Farmer Deller
488
Account of Expenses of His Majesty's Coronation....
491
Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain
South American Independence
Decree of the King of Spain, upon his liberation..
il.
505
509
510
511
513
515
Petition from Corunna in favour of the Inquisition, &c.
7 Life of W. Davison, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth
8 The Last Hours of Sir Walter Rawleigh
[71]
73
...
[77]
[86]
11 A Journey to the Shore of the Polar Sea, by Captain Franklin....
[90]
12 Voyage to the North Whale Fishery, by Capt. Scoresby
13 Hunter's Indian Captivity..
14 Brooke's Travels in Sweden, &c.
[103]
[110]
[114]
15 Malcolm's Memoir of Central India
[117]
16 Memorable Days in America, by W. Faux..
17 Travels in Egypt, &c. by Capts. Irby and Mangles
[120]
[125]
18 Remarks on the Country from Cape Palmas to the River Congo,
by Capt. Adams
[129]
19 Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand
[140]
20 James's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
[149]
21 Recollections of the Peninsula
[165]
22 Burchell's Travels in Africa
[171]
23 State of Jamaica
[185]
DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS, FACTS IN ARTS, SCIENCES, AND
From Lord Byron's Poem of HEAVEN AND EARTH..
From Moore's LOVES OF THE ANGELS.....
From Barry Cornwall's FLOOD OF THESSALY
SONNET, by Henry Neele..
THE PEACH, by James Edmeston
ECHOES, by Ditto
[230]
From the VESPERS OF PALERMO, by Mrs. Hemans.
[231]
Miss Holford's LINES ON THE QUEEN OF FRANCE
[232]
SONNET, by Charles Johnson, Esq.
[283]
TO A BUTTERFLY RESTING ON A SKULL
[234]
ERRATA.
382 For Chap. V. read Chap. VI. 165 For Persecution read Prosecutio